Take that, eFuse... It looks like the encrypted bootloader may soon be history.

[mikejs78]

It appears that there is a vulnerability in the Droid X that is going to make the cracking of the bootloader only a matter of time. Stephen Bird (aka Mr Birdman) has been tweeting rather cryptic messages regarding his progress over the past few days, and now he linked to this thread: http://androidforums.com/1605106-post38.html

It looks like custom roms/custom kernels are only a matter of time. . Gotta love the Android hacking community!

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[santacruz]

thats pretty impressive, must say.

 

[wildman]

Now worth hearing, thanks... To bad Motorola choose to force users to go through so much in the first place..

 

[kdkinc]

I believe the E-fuse is really a job interview test.
Who ever "cracks" E-fuse first get I heck of a position a Motorola.

 

[ottscay]

This is nice, now there's little question that we'll get Honecomb, Ice Cream (or whatever), etc. even after the phone is EOLed.

 

[moosc]

We already had ability to load roms. We just couldnt mess with kernals. We just haven't had any cookers to bake us a good rom.

 

[mikejs78]

A lot of ROM devs were probably holding out because of the lack of ability to customize the kernel. I believe this was the case with Cyanogen.

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[pstinger]

I believe a lot of the dev's had stated before (in various places) that they refused to dev for the X b/c of Moto's policies.

 

[salanester]

I believe a lot of the dev's had stated before (in various places) that they refused to dev for the X b/c of Moto's policies.

That almost seems counterintuitive to me; I would think that would make the dev's want to figure ways around Moto's 'lockdown' of the X even more. I imagine if (when) they can tinker with the kernel we will see more ROMs.

 

[pstinger]

IIRC, and I'm not saying I am, the rationale was that it was in protest of Moto's anti-dev community policies. 'Course, that doesn't mean that anyone who DID say that hasn't changed their minds. lol

 

[roberte1342]

I hope this becomes reality. This is the only thing that has bothered me about the X.

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[DaRkL3AD3R]

I hope this becomes reality. This is the only thing that has bothered me about the X.

Me too man, me too. If Birdman makes good on the bootloader crack, I will definitely be 110% content with this phone. Screw locked bootloaders, and screw Motorola :/

 

[mikejs78]

I am just glad that the X will have developer support whenever Motorola decides the EOL it.